Be sure to check out the interview with Stephan in this month’s edition of GITARIST (#284 – November), the premier Dutch guitar magazine, where he talks about songwriting and the recording proces of “The Dying Light”.

There is also a free thrash metal lead guitar lesson available for the track “Salvation”. Download FREE guitar tabs (.PDF & Guitar Pro) at the Gitarist magazine website.

“Professional in all aspects of recording, tones, production, cover art, and performance – “The Dying Light” could be a sleeper hit in the Melodic Thrash community. The New Wave of Thrash Metal, more modern-sounding, comes through on the chorus of the title cut, the TRIVIUM meets KILLSWITCH ENGAGE nature of “Scavengers” or the commercial-oriented riff/ melody match up during the majority of “Delirium (Forever Bound)”. On the other hand you have killer harmonies and timing at hand during the instrumental “Lost” that would meld the best of METALLICA and the early Gothenburg Metal scene (IN FLAMES, AT THE GATES) and the first song “They Come For Us All” has a lot of those jackhammer crushing chord combinations and uppity Thrash tempos that we’ve all known and loved since the early Bay Area 80’s.”

“The Dying Light is now on the list of albums that have made me shit my pants multiple times (metaphorically of course), and that’s a very thin list. The vocals are certainly rooted in melodic but they have a definitive metalcore sound to them as well which just makes me all the more amazed because just the fact that Soulnerve has managed to combine all of these unique sub-genres and mold them flawlessly together into something fantastic is worthy of all the kings of every metal genre ever.”

-Headbanger Reviews (US)

“Soulnerve are a very decent sounding mixture of melodic death metal, thrash and metalcore and if you are a fan of these musical genres, you should check out this band.”